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Ubuntu 9.10 Off To A Great Performance Start

05-15-2009, 06:30 AM

Phoronix: Ubuntu 9.10 Off To A Great Performance Start

The first alpha release for Ubuntu 9.10 was made available yesterday and while it does net yet integrate Plymouth or any other new features, it has picked up a few new packages. Most prominently, Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 1 features the Linux 2.6.30 kernel and GCC 4.4. There are also other updated packages from Debian like GNOME 2.27, but most notable are the kernel and compiler updates. We have tested out Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 1 and compared its performance to Ubuntu 9.04. While this is very early within the Ubuntu 9.10 development cycle, the results already may come as a surprise.

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We had run the other tests within the compilation suite found in the Phoronix Test Suite too, and in every case Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 1 / GCC 4.4 were faster. With that said, we next moved onto looking at a compression speed test. 7-Zip compression was 4% faster with the Karmic Koala packages compared to the Jaunty Jackalope.

Should say Ubuntu 9.10

Just a minor glitch in the matrix i found while crusing on my favorite website.